CHAPTER 3: LEARNING
The next day, Chiro woke up late. Everyone was in the main room when he entered it. Gibson came up to him.
"We decided to let you sleep in after what happened last night,"
Chiro just nodded. He looked around the room and noticed Antari was missing.
"Where's Antari?" Chiro asked.
"He took a walk,"
"Oh, I guess he's returning the book."
"Actually no. He left the book here. He wants me to study it later. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some work to attend to in my lab."
Gibson left to go to his lab. Chiro went back to the hallway with everyone's rooms in it. First, he checked Antari's room, but didn't find what he was looking for. Then, he checked Gibson's room. After a while of stumbling over tons of beakers and experiments, Chiro finally found what he was looking for: Elements of the Ancients.
He grabbed it and quickly left the room. As soon as he got out, he ran into Otto. Otto looked at the book in Chiro's hands—his usual bright smile slightly faded.
"What cha got there, Chiro?" Otto asked.
"Um…Just a book…" Chiro answered.
"Naw-aw. It's that book you aren't supposed to have, isn't it? Maybe I should let Antari know…"
"Um…" Chiro thought for a second. Then he pulled out a lollipop from his pocket. "Why do that, Otto? When you can have this lollipop?
Otto's eyes got big. "Ooh! Can I have it? Pleease, Chiro??"
"Only if you don't tell Antari,"
"About what?"
Chiro was a little confused. But he just shrugged it off. "Nothing. Here's the lollipop." Chiro handed Otto the lollipop, who quickly unwrapped it and started eating it. He then walked away, forgetting everything.
Chiro was almost to his room when Sprx saw him.
"What do have there, kid?" Sprx asked.
"You got to be kidding me…" Chiro said to himself.
"Isn't that the book Antari said you couldn't have?"
Chiro sighed. "Yes…Here, take it."
"Relax, kid. I don't care if you have the book. I won't tell Antari. Only if you can promise me something,"
"Yeah?"
"If you promise me you won't get hurt like last night."
"Promise, thanks."
"No problem. See ya." Sprx headed back to the main room.
Chiro entered his room and sat on his bed. When he was comfortable, he opened the book and started reading it.
Towards the beginning of time, a master of magic and nature (I think it's called a Naturalist) went to work creating potions and such. He disappeared for years. About five years later, he reappeared. In his hands was a potion.
The potion was a beautiful mixture of blue, red, green, and extremely light blue. He drank the potion in front of his town, Shugazoom. His eyes flickered the same color the potion was, and then he fainted.
When he awoke, he ran outside and reobtained everyone's attention. Once he had it, he showed them his new powers. Powers of nature.
When he thought of Water, his eyes turned normal blue and he could force tidal waves. When he thought of Earth, his eyes turned dirt brown and he uplifted the ground to control earthquakes and such. When he thought of Air, his eyes turned the lightest of blues and he could create or destroy massive whirlwinds. And when he thought of Fire, his eyes turned a blazing shade of red and he could do what he wished with fire.
The people were amazed by his new powers. He used them only for good. Never for money, power, or evil.
One day, a great evil appeared, wanting control of the wizard's elemental powers. When the wizard refused to help him, the evil one created his own elemental powers. But he could not control them and destroyed everything in sight, overwhelmed with power.
The only way to stop him was for the wizard to fuse his own powers with the evil one's. The combining of these powers were too much for them both. They exploded into oblivion. Their powers spreading throughout the cosmos.
No one knows what really happened to their powers. But some say their powers are implanted in this book. And only the purest good soul can unleash and obtain these powers.
When that day comes, the evil one will return to wreak havoc once again. Only the new Element Master can defeat him. But, if the spirit of the evil one gets to the Element Master before she/he develops, or realizes, his/her powers, and obtains their body and powers, he can destroy the Element Master…For good.
Chiro was about to read more, when someone knocked at his door.
"Chiro? May I come in?" It was Antari.
Chiro quickly hid the book under his pillow. "Come on in, Antari." He said.
Antari came in and walked up to Chiro.
"Is everything alright?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"No reason…" Antari just kept staring at Chiro with that 'I know you're hiding something' look. "Is there anything you're not telling me, Chiro?"
"Uh, heh, No. Nothing at all!" Chiro chuckled nervously.
"I gave that book to Gibson earlier. When he went to go read it, it wasn't there. Would you, by chance, know what happened to it? Like who took it?"
Chiro and Antari stared at each other for a few minutes. Finally, Chiro broke.
"Okay, okay!" He took out the book from behind his pillow. "Here's the book…"
"Why did you take it?"
"I just wanted to read it. To find more out about…"
"I understand. This is about your dream, isn't it?"
"Yes. This book is about an Element Master. And so was my dream, except I was the Element Master in it. I know that this is one of those dreams that are going to come true. And this book can probably tell me more about it."
"Very well…You may keep the book. But you may only read it while am around, deal?"
"Deal."
"Good. We will take a look at it tomorrow."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Me-Wow. This was a loong chapter.
Otto-Sucks on lollipop It's strawberry!
Me-Ookkk...Anyway, read and review please!